Profaning the sacred in leadership studies: a reading of Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase
The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith Grint's conceptualization of leadership as necessarily pertaining to the sacred, butdrawing on Giorgio Agamben's notion of profanationwe highlight the need for organization scholars to profane the sacralizations embed